.TH VICE 1 "August 2021" VICE "SlackBuilds.org"
.SH NAME
VICE - Versatile Commodore Emulator and Virtual Commodore Environment
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I VICE
is a multi-platform emulator of the Commodore PET, CBM-II,
VIC20, C64, C64DTV, C128 and Plus4 8-bit computers. The emulators run as
separate programs, but have the same user interface, share the same
settings and support the same file formats. Also some external
utilities are provided.
.P
VICE is made up of the following programs:
.TP 8
.B x64
a fast Commodore 64 emulator
.TP
.B x64sc
an accurate Commodore 64 emulator
.TP
.B xscpu64
an accurate SCPU64 emulator
.TP
.B x64dtv
a C64DTV emulator
.TP
.B x128
a Commodore 128 emulator
.TP
.B xvic
a Commodore VIC20 emulator
.TP
.B xpet
a Commodore PET emulator
.TP
.B xplus4
a Commodore Plus4 emulator
.TP
.B xcbm2
a Commodore CBM-II (6x0/7x0) emulator
.TP
.B xcbm5x0
a Commodore CBM-II (5x0) emulator
.TP
.B vsid \fI[*]\fR
a SID player
.TP
.B c1541 \fI[*]\fR
a stand-alone disk image maintenance utility;
.TP
.B petcat \fI[*]\fR
a Commodore BASIC (de)tokenizer;
.TP
.B cartconv \fI[*]\fR
a cartridge file (bin<--->crt) converter;
.PP
Programs marked with \fI[*]\fR have their own man pages.
.PP
Any of the above programs can be run with the \fB\-\-help\fR option to
get a list of command\-line options; there are too many to list here.
You might want to pipe the output through a pager, e.g.
.PP
.B
x64 \-\-help | less
.PP
The whole documentation for these programs is available in HTML
format; the main file should be installed on your system as
@HTMLDOC@
.P
The same documentation is available in PDF form as
@PDFDOC@, or by selecting \fIHelp \-> Browse Manual\fR from within the emulator.
.P
For up to date news about VICE, have a look at the official home page
at
.P
.RS
http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR petcat(1),
.BR cartconv(1),
.BR c1541(1)
.SH AUTHORS
Marco van den Heuvel <blackystardust68@yahoo.com>
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Fabrizio Gennari <fabrizio.ge@tiscalinet.it>
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Groepaz <groepaz@gmx.net>
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Errol Smith <strobey@users.sourceforge.net>
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Olaf Seibert <rhialto@falu.nl>
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Marcus Sutton <loggedoubt@gmail.com>
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Kajtar Zsolt <soci@c64.rulez.org>
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AreaScout <areascout@gmx.at>
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Bas Wassink <b.wassink@ziggo.nl>
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Michael C. Martin <mcmartin@gmail.com>
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David Hogan <david.q.hogan@gmail.com>
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Martin Pottendorfer <pottendo@gmx.net>
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Stefan Haubenthal <polluks@users.sourceforge.net>
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BSzili <col.lawrence@gmail.com>
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Andreas Matthies <andreas.matthies@gmx.net>
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Daniel Kahlin <daniel@kahlin.net>
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Benjamin 'BeRo' Rosseaux <benjamin@rosseaux.com>
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Ulrich Schulz <peiselulli@t-online.de>
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Thomas Giesel <skoe@directbox.com>
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Ingo Korb <ingo@akana.de>
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Antti S. Lankila <alankila@bel.fi>
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Christian Vogelgsang <chris@vogelgsang.org>
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Dag Lem <resid@nimrod.no>
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Spiro Trikaliotis <Spiro.Trikaliotis@gmx.de>
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Hannu Nuotio <hannu.nuotio@tut.fi>
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Andreas Boose <viceteam@t-online.de>
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Tibor Biczo <crown@mail.matav.hu>
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M. Kiesel <mayne@users.sourceforge.net>
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Andreas Dehmel <zarquon@t-online.de>
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David Hansel <david@hansels.net>
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Markus Brenner <markus@brenner.de>
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Thomas Bretz <tbretz@ph.tum.de>
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Daniel Sladic <sladic@eecg.toronto.edu>
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Andr\('e Fachat <fachat@physik.tu-chemnitz.de>
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Ettore Perazzoli <ettore@comm2000.it>
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Teemu Rantanen <tvr@cs.hut.fi>
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Jouko Valta <jopi@stekt.oulu.fi>
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Jarkko Sonninen <sonninen@lut.fi>
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Mikkel Holm Olsen <vice-dk@symlink.dk>
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Manuel Antonio Rodriguez Bas <formater@winuaespanol.com>
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Paul Dub\('e 
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Czirkos Zoltan <cirix@fw.hu>
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Karai Csaba <cskarai@freemail.hu>
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Andrea Musuruane <musuruan@bmm.it>
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Jesse Lee <interpreters.jesse@gmail.com>
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Jarek Sobolewski <r@sledinmay.com>
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Michael Litvinov <litvinov.m@i.ua>
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Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
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Emir Akaydin (aka: Skate) <emir@akaydin.com>
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with several contributions from other people around the world; see the
HTML documentation for more information.


